[Ads-l] Taxes Are Hard=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94So_?=Is Pronouncing New Tax Law Acronyms Like FDII

[Mark Mandel]

Damn, if I had to deal with that-- which fortunately I don't-- I would
treat it the old-fashioned way: as an initialism, "ef dee aye aye", not an
acronym. Yes, I know, *acronym* is now widely applied to both. If I see
that in editing, I'm descriptivist and stet it. In my own usage I keep the
distinction. So call me a FDII-DDII, think I care?

Mark, who hates losing useful distinctions


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 10:44 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Taxes Are Hard—So Is Pronouncing New Tax Law Acronyms Like FDII*


*Then there’s also BEAT, QBI and GILTI*


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> Richard Rubin and
> Theo Francis
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